There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.